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Controversy growing over buoys in the Rio Grande

Trump administration started deploying 500 miles of Big buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande, the dividing border line with Mexico, financed by 2025's spending bill. Locals aren't happy considering that illegal border crossings are at a 50-year low.

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David Martin Davies is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering Texas, the border and Mexico.